Atlas Shrugged
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🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Atlas Shrugged is a 1957 novel by Ayn Rand. Rand's fourth and final novel, it was also her longest, and the one she considered to be her magnum opus in the realm of fiction writing.[1] Atlas Shrugged includes elements of science fiction, mystery, and romance, and it contains Rand's most extensive statement of Objectivism in any of her works of fiction. The theme of Atlas Shrugged, as Rand described it, is "the role of man's mind in existence". The book explores a number of philosophical themes from which Rand would subsequently develop Objectivism. In doing so, it expresses the advocacy of reason, individualism, and capitalism, and depicts what Rand saw to be the failures of governmental coercion.
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| 0:06.1 | But he's still like just a guy, right? Well, yeah, I mean he knows like future |
| 0:12.2 | Science future science. It sounds super boring. Oh, that's what I said |
| 0:16.6 | Tell you you're not not pushing hard enough the solution to none of this is going to be pushing harder |
| 0:21.8 | You don't know that you hey dumb. Hey, like what are you guys doing with the mic? |
| 0:26.8 | Yeah, Cecil told us not to touch those I know |
| 0:29.4 | So you know how this week's essay is about Atlas shrugged? |
| 0:33.2 | Yeah, well, and so does everybody listen to the episode that they see it when they play the pod some people auto play the shows |
| 0:40.0 | No, it don't be meta. Oh, oh, you want me to be less mad guys. Yeah, okay. That's a really good point |
| 0:44.6 | No, but guys so Tom and Eli what are you guys doing? What's right? So because this week's essay is about Atlas shrugged |
| 0:50.0 | I figure what better way to captivate the spirit of self-reliance than to give Cecil who edits the show most of the time the week off |
| 0:58.2 | I told him I told him Cecil you take this one off Tom and I are gonna set up the studio and then I'll do the edit |
| 1:05.1 | I mean what's the worst they could happen right? Okay, well like right now everything in the studio is plugged into a pile of mashed potatoes |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah, mashed potatoes. Yeah, I mean, it's fine. We could edit that out right? Oh, okay. Are you guys gonna finish that or? |
| 1:23.1 | So no you can get so you can get some you get some he's a big sum |
| 1:26.8 | Okay, you took a lot you said some |
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| 2:00.5 | I'm Eli and I'll be shouldering the burden of hosting this show |
| 2:04.1 | But I can't do it without my fellow super geniuses who are also sexy and perfect and rich he Tom and Noah |
| 2:11.6 | Yeah, I was born on third base so |
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